Collaboration:

  • The major source comes from the recent success in the American business
  • It is difficult for schools to organize this because of an enormous variety of ways in which small groups can be organized.
  • Teachers have to be:
    • Selective in their choices depending on their goals
    • Selective about the work that is to be accomplished in the group
    • Selective about how performance will be evaluated
  • Collaboration is not a useful tool for all aspects of teaching, should be used where applicable.
  • There is no one way to do Collaboration
    • -Aronson's Jigsaw
    • -Sharan's Group Investigation
    • -Slavin's Individual Accountability and Group Interdependence